MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - page 1358

Hi, I'm a newbie and also new to this forum. So far find this very informative and educational. Lot to learn. Can anyone show me where I can find an indicator which will plot on the charts the month's high and low levels? Thank you. Kind regards, vtayha

I'm new to the MQL4 language and was writing a pretty simple EA that enters a position based on when two moving averages cross. When I use the strategy tester to backtest the program it seems to be working correctly (i.e. the results match the paper results that i have been previously tracking)....

If you can give some advice or list your way of QA for EA and for backtesting it will be great. Thanks in advance!

Hello, The code below doesn't work, could you tell me why ? ObjectCreate ( "test", OBJ_ARROW, 0, 0, 0 ) ; ObjectSet ( "test", OBJPROP_STYLE, STYLE_SOLID ) ; ObjectSet ( "test", OBJPROP_WIDTH, 1 ) ; ObjectSet ( "test", OBJPROP_COLOR, Red ) ; ObjectSet ( "test",...

Hi, I have this strange error "Zero Divide", when loading attached indicator. Can somebody solve the code, so that the error will not show in the future. Thanks,

My EA isn't entering as expected. How do I get comments or whatever to print in backtest so that I can see the values of my indicator?

Need answer. I want to delay next expert advisor decision for (n) minutes or exacty to the time of chosen period (M1, M5, M15 etc...), so i need some function inside expert advisor first to check wich period user is using and then sleep for this time, and put this code somewhere in start() function....

Hello, I have a problem. When drawing a horizontal line on any bar, how can I accomplish that I can get the value of the right side scale on which the line points? Or even how can I draw a label with the value of which the line points. Thank You. Kind Regards

Hello, I am wondering if somone can please assit me. I am placing text and trend lines on my MT4 Charts, however when I close the charts, and reopen them, all the text and trend lines have disappeared. Is there a way that I can save these so they are there each time I open the chart. Thanks in...

Hi all, Is there an MT4 indicator to show the spread from the high and low of a single bar at a glance, maybe on a right click? Thank you all for your help, Pedro

I have been trying to get this indi to give me an alert with pop up, somebody on another forum tried to add the alert but it still has a bug. Here is the source code #property copyright "Copyright © 2005, Yura Prokofiev"#property link "Yura.prokofiev@gmail.com"#property...

Gann_HiLo_Activator_v2 writes a comment to the chart on the top left ---- HiLo = Bid() where Bid() is replaced by the current bid price. I don't have the source code for this indicator and the comment isn't showing up in the objects list. How can I retrieve the value of this comment?

Hi Guys im using this to calculate my lot size,any one know why this set a big lot size on mini account?? double lots = AccountFreeMargin ( ) * Risk / 100 / ( StopLoss * MarketInfo ( Symbol ( ) , MODE_TICKVALUE ) ) ; I want to calculate lot size by using stoploss and risk parameters Plz some Advise

I have a quite successful system for GU H1 (a trend follower) but trades are quite rare (2 a week). I would like to move it to the lower TF, let's say M15 so it trades 2-3 times a day. Scaling down parameters is not enough and probably I need some extra anti-noise filters. System in current shape

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Hi Every body, little help needed just im usign this to find a high/low iHighest(NULL,0,MODE_HIGH,BarsHistoryCount,1) or .... any one have any idea to find a better high/low (previously)? BarsHistoryCount is always changing, i need a better way to find previous high/low specialy on TF-5min help plz...

Hi, I am using an MT4 using ibfx as my broker. The data at xe.com seems a little different. My eurusd trade would have been closed if the data was that of xe.com. I am asking therefore your opinion or your knowledge on these differences in data feed. For sure, it makes the EA perform differently. Is

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the messages sent to the "mailbox" in metatrader forwarded onto a "real" e-mail account? I have asked my broker(MIG) and they told me there is no way to do this! Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you forum......Daniel

i i have the best ide to make an ea thats look on a template only grean for up trend and red for down trend this ide will be millions worth i thnk. more about the ide will come but the ide is so good i think it will get both me and you rich. is ther any out ther ther is good to build a script or an...

Hello guys, I am quite new, and i have one very unusual problem with funciton OrderClose. When i test my strategy with simulation, everything works OK, but if i try to strat EA on real time trading(DEMO trading of course :)), the expert opens new and new position and doesn't colse previous orders,...

Hello guys, i have an EA that does not close trades when the opposite parameter is met. Need help from programmers on what i should do. Thanks guys

Hi, It is my first post and happy day. I would like hide some selected error (error 0 & error 1) for displaying some other errors only, for example: error 3, 130 and 131. Anyone has a function for this ? Tx for help.

I'm trading using 3 Moving Averages (5, 13, and 50). The 50 Moving Average is my trend line and the 5 and 13 are my crosses. When the 5 Moving Average crosses over the 13 Moving Average (or vise versa) I'd like to enter the trade in the direction of the 5 Moving Average. My issue is that when the...

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// void TIME_DEL() { for(int i=OrdersTotal()-1;i>=0;i--) { if(!OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)) continue; RefreshRates(); if((OrderType()==OP_BUYSTOP)...

Is there any way to back up those setting i have set for my hotkey for the script. For those indicator, script and EA, i just copy and do a back up, whereas for hotkey, any way to do it? Thanks

Hi, I would like to know is it possible to run EA forever until press the "stop" button ? It is found that : when I run the EA, it just run up to current moment. What I expect is .... as the time goes ..... it would continue to run .... until I press the "stop" button ..... is it possible ? how ?

When I use this way of closing opposite orders in my EA, and the value of two orders does not match, then a new order will be placed by the broker with the difference of values of previous two orders. Eg. Order1 - Short, 2 lotsOrder2 - Long, 3 lots OrderCloseBy(Order1, Order2); // https://docs.mql4...

I want to create an indicator trendline based on two point (one - the highest price of tomorrow and another the last price of tomorrow). Any indicador similar to suggest ? tks.

I tried searching for this but couldn't find it here. So I thought I'll try asking. Is there an EA for managing open positions to reduce risks ? Something that does conditional stop adjustments. Like a smart trailing stop. Thanks

I have downloaded the attached indicator and like to have some suggestions on how to create a signal out of it to program an EA? On the chart you can see that the indicator draws an arrow on a cross of the signal line. It is this signal that I need. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.